Child Starvation Hearing Opens

A psychologist has testified at a hearing for three adults accused of starving two children and locking them up for years that the victims faced --quote-- "an extreme level of deprivation." Dr. Gregory Giron (jeer-OHN') was the leadoff witness at apreliminary hearing for the children's grandmother, Esther Rios,their mother, Regina Rios, and the mother's boyfriend, TomasGranados. Justice of the Peace Robey Willis must decide whether to bindover the three for a District Court trial on six felony countseach. The charges include two counts of child abuse, two counts ofchild neglect and two counts of false imprisonment. The three areaccused of locking Regina Rios' 16-year-old daughter and11-year-old son in the bathroom and starving them. When the children were discovered January 19th, they appeared tobe half their ages. The girl weighed 41 pounds and her brother 31pounds.

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